Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution - Couverture souple

McDonald, Forrest

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0700603115 ISBN 13 : 9780700603114

Editeur : University Press of Kansas, 1985

Synopsis

This is the first major interpretation of the framing of the Constitution to appear in more than two decades. Forrest McDonald, widely considered one of the foremost historians of the Constitution and of the early national period, reconstructs the intellectual world of the Founding Fathers--including their understanding of law, history political philosophy, and political economy, and their firsthand experience in public affairs--and then analyzes their behavior in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in light of that world. No one has attempted to do so on such a scale before. McDonald's principal conclusion is that, though the Framers brought a variety of ideological and philosophical positions to bear upon their task of building a "new order of the ages," they were guided primarily by their own experience, their wisdom, and their common sense.

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À propos de l'auteur

Forrest McDonald was Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Alabama and author of sixteen books, including Pulitzer Prize finalist Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution and The American Presidency. He was named by the NEH as the sixteenth Jefferson Lecturer, the nation’s highest honor in the humanities.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Kansas
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0700603115
• ISBN 13: 9780700603114
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 346
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